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[mythsoc] Article in _The New Republic_ about Tolkien

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, Jan 26, 2002

<<Frodo is essentially a rentier, while his faithful attendant Sam Gamgee is
all too obviously the gratifyingly loyal, deferential, and comic servant of
Victorian fiction--Sam Weller without the panache--excluded by his class from
more than a secondary role.>>

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, up against the wall with Frodo!

(I notice that the fact Sam became a Mayor and founded a line goes for
naught.)

None of =us=, of course, want to live in a "cowpat Arcadia" (a rather neat
phrase of Mr Jenkyns) such as the Shire - or, of course, an "an emotionally
impoverished world" (are we talking about the same book!?).

Perish forbid.

Diamond Proudbrook

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